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by pavl- 5mo ago
lol, the OP is such a classic HN take. "Why doesn't society simply absorb a negative externality created by gambling and add high cost redundancy layers that are otherwise useless" - Not every problem is technical.
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by pavl- 5mo ago
"Some data models are already heavily polluted by people manipulating observations for various purposes" Example of this?
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by pavl- 5mo ago
If you feel like spending several hundred dollars on a backpack (big if, I know), I can personally vouch for https://www.seventeenthirtythree.com/ . It's more or less a one man show, and the guy is very obsessive about
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by pavl- 1y ago
"A nation that can’t produce [physical goods] can’t stand." Based on what evidence? "And I think part of the issue is that we’ve become lazy. People don’t want to work anymore" Americans work more hours per week than a m
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by pavl- 2y ago
To you "screaming and yelling" at a private company that still retains agency over it's content moderation is government censorship, but the government's direct censoring of information is not? Partisan politics has a ne
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by pavl- 2y ago
Unless the author makes a compelling case about why AI breaks the MAD status-quo between nuclear powers, I will assume that their appeals to NATSEC are an attempt to artificially create moat for their company.
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by pavl- 2y ago
I don't think women are inherently better behaved than men, or that they naturally see themselves as being on the same team. It's that the dynamic where it feels fun or funny to tell a joke that makes a minority in a group feel ba
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by pavl- 2y ago
How much of this opinion has been shaped by actually talking to the women whose experience you are summarizing? And specifically in a context where they'd give you an honest and candid answer, which probably wouldn't involve you s
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by pavl- 2y ago
I have a first-hand experience once or twice a year that make me stop and think -- if I were a woman in this situation I'd probably be doubting my career path. The example I cited is particularly egregious, but I have seen several othe
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by pavl- 2y ago
One of the smartest people I know almost quit software her first year out of school, because her all-male team spent an afternoon teasing her about how they were going to start a strip poker game and they think she'd be "a natural
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by pavl- 2y ago
Most or all mentions of Native Americans were introduced by Kubrick and absent in King's original
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by pavl- 2y ago
Do you think a movie where the main character is driven to madness at the site of a Native American burial ground/frontier wars is not purposefully introducing this subtext or do you not like the language that the author used?
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by pavl- 2y ago
Why do you think the goal of modern art should necessarily be to appeal to as many people as possible - or when you say "universally bad" do you mean to say "perceived as bad to people who aren't immersed in art"? M